{"id":182632,"date":"2015-07-19T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/19\/why-the-germans-shouldnt-run-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2015-07-19T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T02:13:00","slug":"why-the-germans-shouldnt-run-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/19\/why-the-germans-shouldnt-run-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Germans Shouldn&#8217;t Run the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/north-koreas-economy-grew-faster-than-the-eurozone-last-year-2015-7\">the economy of North Korea grew faster than the EU&#8217;s economy last year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">North Korea\u2019s economy expanded by 1.0% to $29.85 billion (\u00a319 billion) in 2014, according to Reuters citing analysis from South Korea\u2019s central bank.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">That&#8217;s just better than the 0.9% growth recorded in the Eurozone last year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Bank of Korea (BoK) report that \u201cthe increase in economic activity was attributed mainly to growth in services and building while farming, mining and manufacturing saw slower growth.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Growth in services, making up around 31.3% of total economic output, accelerated to 1.3%, up from 0.3% in 2013, with retail sales, food, and accommodation, logistics and communications all expanding from a year earlier.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">North Korea does not release official economic data, hence the reliance on the BoK analysis to estimate economic output.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>EU growth is pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more the EU&#8217;s hegemon and chief predatory exporter, Germany, experienced a GDP growth roughly double that of the EU as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>German policies with regard to the EU, and particularly with regard to the Euro zone, are about benefiting the nation at the expense of its neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>German domination was a bad idea in 1935, and it&#8217;s a bad idea in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the economy of North Korea grew faster than the EU&#8217;s economy last year: North Korea\u2019s economy expanded by 1.0% to $29.85 billion (\u00a319 billion) in 2014, according to Reuters citing analysis from South Korea\u2019s central bank.That&#8217;s just better than the 0.9% growth recorded in the Eurozone last year.The Bank of Korea &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155,973,1110,992,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dprk","category-economy","category-european-union","category-statistics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}